Digital Application in the Production of Cast Metals

Clifton A. Prokop, Professor of Fine Arts at Keystone College, is well known for his expertise as a sculptor and educator. He has a BS degree in art education and a MFA in sculpture, with many post terminal degree courses to his credit. His work has been exhibited extensively, including many private galleries and Museums with his work in many public and private collections.He has received over his career many Grants and Awards and is presently Senior Faculty Status at Keystone College.He is noted for his work in cast iron nationally and has conducted many public iron pours. He has also been instrumental in developing several successful art programs in metal casting, glass and 3/D printing. He brings a belief that all art disciplines are interconnected and has been a visiting artist at Alfred University, University of Minnesota, Southern Illinois University, University of Georgia, Carnegie Mellon University, and Ramapo University.

Jon Lash, President, CEO – Digital AtelierJon attended California College of the Arts before joining Johnson Atelier Technical Institute for Sculpture in Princeton, New Jersey in 1978. His first one man show in NYC was with the Victoria Munro Gallery in the 1980’s and he continued to show there and other galleries through the 1990’s. The Chrysler Museum was his first museum showing; his work is held by various private collectors and also in many corporate collections in the US.

At Johnson Atelier, Jon was the Director of Special Projects. He has assisted with numerous Artists from around the world overseeing their projects using traditional casting and metal fabrication techniques. Among the people he worked with were Georgia O’Keeffe, George Segal, Julian Schnabel, Kiki Smith, Tom Otterness, Do Ho Suh and Jeff Koons. He most recently collaborated with Kara Walker on her project at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, “Sugarland” and Adrian Villar Rojas for the Metropolitan Museum RooftopJon has taught workshops and lectured at many US Universities and was a USIS Special Art Ambassador to Kuwait in the late 1980’s. He has traveled extensively in Europe and Asia visiting foundries and Arts communities.​In 1998 Jon started the Digital Atelier. Digital Atelier is a 3D sculpture and design firm creating unique, often one of a kind large scale sculptures using advanced digital imaging, laser scanning and CNC machining. The DA workshop supports artists, architects and designers from original concept through project completion.

Kevin Dartt utilizes art, design, craft, engineering and philosophy to generate dialogue about how the world we live in has become imbalanced between what is natural, artificial and virtual. In Kevin’s artistic practice social challenges are presented through functional sculptures as prototypes for mass production. The approach he takes to make pieces is similar to an industrial designer, but the primary purpose of the object is to create a cognitive response that juxtaposes function with form. Kevin holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Binghamton University and a Master of Fine Art in Sculpture from Alfred University. The primary focus of his career is making interactive public sculptures, one of which was rated in the top 5 must see public sculptures in New York City by Arthena.com in 2015, and has public work across the country. In addition to public work Kevin has an extensive exhibition record. Currently he is the 3D Fabrication Manager in the Department if Contemporary Art and Theater at Shepherd University.

Joel Weissman (BFA Montana State University, MFA Syracuse University) is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects blend more traditional approaches to art making such as bronze, ceramics and iron casting, with the more contemporary practices of digital fabrication, video and street art. Utilizing specificities of context to access more universal ideas; his work is concerned with public memory, as it relates to authority and personal identity. He has been awarded artist residencies at the Chautauqua Institute, Salem Art Works, and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts. As an educator Joel has taught at Oxbow School of Art in Saugatuck Michigan, Syracuse University in Upstate NY and has led workshops at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Yale University and, is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Ramapo College of New Jersey. His work has been shown nationally at galleries in New York City, as well as spaces in New Jersey, Montana, Washington and Pennsylvania.

Mary Neubauer has shown her work widely. Her sculptures and prints can be found in a number of public and private collections, and she has completed many public art projects in the western states, including several interactive sculptural works involving light and sound with collaborator and media artist Todd Ingalls. In the past ten years, her sculptures and digital images have appeared in a significant number of international exhibitions, including venues inNew York, Paris, Beijing, New Delhi, Florence, Singapore, and Adelaide. Working at the intersection of art and science, she is active in organizationsincluding Ars Mathematica and Art-Science Collaborations, Inc. She has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, a Fulbright Fellow in Cambridge England, and a Ford Fellow at Indiana University, Bloomington. Recent residencies include Garfagnana Innovazione 2013 to 2018 (Digital Stone Carving in Italy), the Anderson Ranch Center for the Arts, the Tyrone Guthrie Center at Annaghmakerrig, Ireland, the and the John Michael Kohler Arts and Industry Residency at the Kohler Foundry. She was a member of the Arctic Circle 2016 Expedition. She is a President’s Professor of Sculpture at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University, where she is the program coordinator of Sculpture and is involved in the three-dimensional and visualization of data and input from sensors from a sculptural and installational point of view.